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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosEcuadorCongo - KinshasaAlbania
27312,26851,1813,085
27412,44652,7823,065
27512,62954,4533,047
27612,82756,1703,038
27813,07457,8603,026
27913,36859,5993,014
28013,66161,4742,998
28113,91563,4792,979
28214,13365,5902,957
28314,35267,8002,934
28514,56970,1142,915
28614,78672,5502,900
28715,00275,1382,892
28815,21877,7922,888
28915,43380,5342,882
29015,64783,3682,876
29115,86086,2292,868
29116,07289,1932,863
29216,28292,2092,861
29316,48995,2322,854
29416,69398,3202,842
29416,894101,4992,825
29517,093104,7672,799
29517,288108,1712,787

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Ecuador

  • 1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Congo - Kinshasa, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.